Saturday, August 30, 2014

When Kong through the curtains comes peeping
The wrong blonde in a nightshirt starts weeping
Though she's plucked from her room
And then chucked to her doom
Soon he's gone with a skirt who's worth keeping.

David Cairns

Kong grabs the wrong blond before he finds Fay Wray: a production drawing for King Kong (1933). More on King Kong after we finish our feature on Scream Queens.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Poor Una was made for a gag
She'd swoon when afraid, then she'd sag
And she'd carp and she'd screech
Features sharp, and no peach
All too soon, Una played the old bag.

Una O'Connor (1880 -1959) was comic relief in James Whale's The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). In the latter she plays Minnie, the Baron's housekeeper. The monster, of course, is Karloff.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

This unfortunate soul, in her keeping,
Out the door takes a stroll while still sleeping
Though she's nursed, won't recover
She's been cursed, like her lover
On this torrid atoll all is weeping.

The lovely Frances Dee starred in at least one moody masterpiece, I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur; 1943). In it she plays nurse Betsy Connell, in charge of zombie Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon). Dee was married to actor Joel McCrea.

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Her nerves frayed, in deep water she's treading
She's dismayed -- her own slaughter she's dreading
Though she thinks she's alone
Her heart sinks like a stone
She's afraid if she's caught it means shredding.

Jane Randolph takes a swim in Cat People (Jacques Tourneur; 1942). Title by the always in focus David Cairns.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Late at night -- something's wrong -- there's a sound
You're uptight -- move along -- don't turn 'round!
Hear her growl in the dark,
On the prowl through the park...
She might bite, and belongs in a pound.

Jane Randolph takes a walk in Cat People (Jacques Tourneur; 1942). Title by cheap suit David Cairns.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Irena the Serb's very glamorousDejeuner sur l'herbe turns her amorous
When her mood gets erotic
Then she's brooding, psychotic
Brain disturbed, she goes furry and clamorous.

David Cairns

Simone Simon is the feline Irena Dubrovna in Cat People (Jacques Tourneur; 1942). Kent Smith is Oliver Reed, who falls for her. "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" means "The luncheon on the grass", and is the title of an oil painting by Édouard Manet.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Ankers' pictures, with loonies, all teem
Men afflicted by moonlight's full beam
Oh-so-scary amours
Who grow hairy on moors
And predictably soon there's a scream.

British actress and 'scream queen' Evelyn Ankers faints in the arms of The Wolf Man (1941), lounges in a promo pic below for The Mad Ghoul (1943), and points to a list of some of her other films at Universal, accompanied by director James P. Hogan and the Mad Ghoul himself, David Bruce. Here's a previous rhyme about Ankers.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Farewell to the eerie departed
From their dwellings of fear they've been carted
Only lost, not destroyed
They'll defrost, redeployed
When their hellish careers are restarted.

The Monster shambles off into the graveyard: Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale; 1935). Title by dust-bunny David Cairns. With this goodbye, we expand our focus beyond the classic Universal monster films. First up, Scream Queens.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

If you poke him to death with a stick
It's revoked in the very next flick
But with box office losses
Not garlic or crosses
The cloaked one becomes really sick.

David Cairns

Dr. Neimann pulls a stake from the heart of Dracula: Boris Karloff and John Carradine in House of Frankenstein (1944). The 1940s monster cycle was winding down at Universal. The atomic age was just around the corner, bringing forth new creatures and giant, radioactive critters.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Unholy, he slept in his crypt
Then slowly he crept out and sipped
Drac's undead and infernal
And it's said he's eternal
But by showbiz inept he is whipped.

Lou Costello as Wilbur Grey, Béla Lugosi as Count Dracula, and Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein Monster, in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton; 1948), the film that put the final nail in the coffin of Dracula at Universal. Title by box office poisoner David Cairns.

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